Incantaion Quotes & Sayings

It's not that humans and non-humans are identical ... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same lack of understanding many people have about animals today. When slaves were brought over from Africa, many people believed they were not humans, that they didn't have feelings. Many people believe that primates and other animals don't have feelings, too, but they do. — Jane Goodall

I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else. — Spencer Tracy

At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse. — James Fenton

Forthwith I crush this acid lemon
Freeing myself of the malefic venom
Hither I let thee rotten
Let my curse be forgotten. — Camilla Isley

Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual. — Piet Mondrian

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men. — Edwin Percy Whipple

30. A philosopher without clothes and one without books. "I have nothing to eat," says he, as he stands there half-naked, "but I subsist on the logos." And with nothing to read, I subsist on it too. — Marcus Aurelius

Raven briefly pondered the phrase, "staring down the barrel of a gun". It wasn't really that accurate, he decided. After all, it was too dark to see any features down a barrel, only a black circle at the end of it. — A. Ashley Straker

As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be. — Audre Lorde

We have to realize that spirit is an infinite potential that includes everything. And all of our lives are proof that our spiritual nature contains everything at once - that we can become clear or confused, that we can act loving or cruel. How we act and feel depends on how awake we are, and how much we experience that silence, that peace, within. — Adyashanti

Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables. — Cate Blanchett

I want all of you," I said. "Every part."
He whispered back, "It's yours. — Leah Raeder